Hi there!
Im wondering if I will be able to use Terminal and X11 in osX running on an intel chip? Can we still use Unix and Linux software in terminal?

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Linux was originally developed to run on x86 (Intel) architecture. Now of course OS X is based on BSD, and I don't know BSD's history - but I do know that most people running it are doing so on x86, NOT ppc.

You'll be able to do all those things you did before. One nice thing is it'll probably be easier to port apps from Linux/BSD to OS X (e.g. the fink project) now.

The UNIX core of MacOS X is Darwin. Darwin runs on x86 already. So yes, you'd get to run all the UNIX-y stuff in MacOS X on an Intel box. You could even run it right now if you have a PC (Darwin, I mean, not the full-blown MacOS X).

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